Well, it's more that they have to actually accompany him to/from the gate, sit with them if they get scared (not a worry with mine, he loves it), and if anything happens to the flight (delay, etc), they handle the rebooking, hotel, etc as part of the service.

> Sites are defined much more by their membership than by their stated topic; I dare anyone reading this to compose a one-sentence summary of Server Fault's scope that doesn't boil down to, "stuff sysadmins aren't bored with yet".

This is a CG based on the previous code-challenge Holy Hole In A Donut, Batman!, which attributes scores to each character in a string, including whitespace and newlines.
The Goal
Given any such program string as input, output the score that would be received as judged by the code challenge's...

This is a simple challenge:
Given a set of integers, find the sum of all integers in it.
But with a twist.
Your score is the Levenshtein distance between your code and the following phrase (The challenge):
Given a set of integers, find the sum of all integers in it.
Your code has to actual...

Levenshtein Distance challenges (like the one above) are probably going to be very boring if the English explanation is consistently 10 times longer than the code it takes to solve the problem. That's why I was thinking about it, anyway.

Problem
Modify the following code such that the return statement at the end of main returns 1.
Rules
only modify lines around the FINALIZE label, as indicated
the function main must be thread-safe
do not read or write the storage associated with the variable passes
do not read uninitialized s...

Force an Average on an Image
Tags: popularity-contest graphical-output image-processing
I'm only sandboxing this so I can get some new test images from the PPCG community. Done otherwise.
Write a program that takes in a standard truecolor image along with a single 24-bit RGB color. Output an...

This may seem like it's a question for StackOverflow, but I want to make this question into a challenge. Challenges are more fun.
Some introduction:
In iOS programming and game development, I wanted to make some SKLabelNodes (labels in SpriteKit) appear on the screen to represent the year, have...

Write a program that takes in a standard truecolor image along with a single 24-bit RGB color. Output an image with the same dimensions as the input image, whose average color is exactly the single color that was input. The goal is to make the output image look the same as the input, despite nece...

Currently, we have the following official reasons to close a question:
Duplicate
Off topic due to:
General Programming Question
No objective winning criterion
Belongs on another site
Unclear what you're asking.
Too broad
Primarily opinion based
However, there are other valid reasons to clo...

Possible Tetris sequences
Write code to figure out whether a sequence of Tetris pieces can be generated by the official Tetris algorithm. Fewest bytes wins.
Since 2001, official Tetris games generate the sequence of pieces in a special way. The seven pieces IJLOSTZ are dropped in a random ord...

@Optimizer Changes? Are you talking about my avatar? I gave up on an animated one because other browsers don't display the glitch, so this is just a normal image (I see it glitch slightly, but not in the shouty way my previous one did).

Tree Generation
This popularity challenge is about generating a tree and displaying it with ASCII.
Write a program that does the following:
The wooden parts of your Tree must be organized as a tree graph without intersections, thus no pair of branches may intersect each other.
After generatin...

A function (or program) which takes inputs and provides outputs can be said to have a cycle if calling the function on its own output repeatedly eventually reaches the original number. For instance, take the following function:
Input: n 1 2 3 4 5 6
Output: f(n) 5 7 1 3 4 9
If we start with...

This is a sequel to this challenge: Code close to the challenge: Sum of integers
The challenge in this one is a bit harder, and also makes for a cool title (Which is why I picked it):
Calculate the Levenshtein distance between two strings
Just like last challenge, your score in this challe...

Holy Hole In A Donut, Batman!
Some characters are more holy than others. Using as few unholy letters as possible, display the statement above.
Challenge
Write a full program to print Holy Hole In A Donut, Batman! to STDOUT or closest alternative. If you can compress the input to reduce your sc...

This is the followup question to this previous CodeGolf question about Covering Arrays (the details of what Covering Arrays are and how they are formatted at the NIST website are there).
In this challenge, we won't just be validating covering arrays - we will try to minimize them. Finding minima...

The nth prime gap is defined as $p_{n+1} - p_n $, [sequence A001223 in OEIX] (http://oeis.org/A001223). What values can occur as a prime gap?
Clearly with the exception of $1 = 3 - 2$, all the prime gaps must be even. We also know that this sequence must contain infinitely large numbers, since t...

Background
A question wanted to solve a problem in a way that made it unreasonably complex: http://stackoverflow.com/a/31551257/29347
The problem in the original question is:
Take a list of (key, value) and produce a dict such that {key: sum(value)}
My Problem
I want to use dict compres...

A function (or program) which takes inputs and provides outputs can be said to have a cycle if calling the function on its own output repeatedly eventually reaches the original number. For instance, take the following function:
Input: n 1 2 3 4 5 6
Output: f(n) 5 7 1 3 4 9
If we start with...